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CAMA-C replaced the method of recording detailed billing information of customer-dialed calls in CAMA-equipped toll switching machines. CAMA-C utilized a high-speed minicomputer an IBM System/7 to replace the 28 channel paper-tape

perforators and the master timer in existing crossbar tandem and/or 4A installations. Created tapes could be processed at the AMARC center which used DEC PDP 11/70's Mini Computers.

 

Photo courtesy Curtis Anderson

 

Page 36: Altair Modules

 

These pages, featuring minicomputer kits and peripherals from the MITS Altair product line, were originally clipped from the December 1975 issue of Popular Electronics magazine.

DEC PDP-8/e in Museum of Science in Boston. The PDP-8/e is probably the most familiar model of PDP-8s. These were widely deployed, and served for an amazingly long time in some applications.

LASER SPARK SPECTROSCOPY USED TO MEASURE GAS SPECIES CONCENTRATIONS IN A FLAME.

 

SCIENTISTS USE ADVANCED LASERS AND COMPUTERS AT THE 50,000 SQUARE FOOT, FOUR-BUILDING COMBUSTION RESEARCH FACILITY TO STUDY EXACTLY HOW AND WHY FUELS BURN. IN THE LABORATORY BUILDING, SPECIAL LASER SYSTEMS WITH BEAMS ARE DISTRIBUTED TO 14 INDIVIDUAL LABORATORIES. EACH LABORATORY IS SERVED BY A MINICOMPUTER WHICH IS CONNECTED TO A CENTRAL DATA SYSTEM. IN ADDITION TO BENCH-TOP FLAME STUDIES, THE FACILITY HOUSES SEVERAL MAJOR COMBUSTION EXPERIMENT LABS, INCLUDING FIVE OPTICALLY PORTED RESEARCH ENGINES, A COMPUTER-CONTROLLED COMBUSTION BOMB, AND LOW-PRESSURE FLAME, COAL FLAME, AND TURBULENT FLAME LABORATORIES. THESE STUDIES COULD LEAD TO THE DESIGN OF HEAT ENGINES AND ENERGY SYSTEMS THAT BURN FUEL MORE EFFICIENTLY WHILE CREATING LESS POLLUTION.

 

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Its a bit like the later Modrian "boogie woogie" pictures that Jean and I saw at the New York Museum of Modern Art.

Or, come to think of it, like the glorious fake "computer" in the control room of the "Seaview" submarine in "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea" in the 1960s. I loved that computer. It was fake-and-a-half, but it flickered purposefully and sparks shot out of it when thing were bad... one could do worse! Later I saw real minicomputers with neon lamps displaying processor registers, program and stack counter, etc. That's what they were trying to suggest.

DEC PDP-8/E brain surgery station, for stimulating and measuring nerve activity in patients.

From NASA KSC firing room. This is a 16-bit minicomputer.

If you haven't, read the info in the previous pic, too. There's also a nicer closeup pic of that LED panel on Bill Buzbee's HomebrewCPU at his site here. I asked after getting some info from him if the terminal next to it was connected to the computer he'd built from scratch, and he said yes, and then typed in some commands, and up fired a version of Conway's "Game of Life," all while the red LEDs on the homebuilt computer lit up, tracking registers, and serving out the info. The game played back at about 1.5FPS, which I find amazing. Definitely read what he did at his site. Here's a preview:

 

"Magic-1 is a homebuilt minicomputer. It doesn't use an off-the-shelf microprocessor, but rather has a custom CPU made out of 74 Series TTL chips. Altogether there are more than 200 chips in Magic-1 connected together with thousands of individually wrapped wires. And, it works. Not only the hardware, but there's also a full ANSI C compiler for Magic-1 (retargeted LCC), and a rudimentary homebrew operating system."

 

Unreal.

Render of laptop computer mind explosion.

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SANDIA DEMONSTRATION OF A TEAM OF ROBOTS RESCUING A SKIER BURIED IN AVALANCHE.

 

A COMPUTER PROGRAM DEVELOPED AT SANDIA USES A GROUP OF ROBOTS TO RAPIDLY LOCATE PEOPLE BURIED UNDER AN AVALANCHE. THE SYSTEM CAN BE USED BY PEOPLE CARRYING MINICOMPUTERS, GLOBAL POSITIONING RECEIVERS, AND SIMPLE RADIO EQIUPMENT TO FIND PEOPLE BURIED IN AVALANCHES FOUR TIMES FASTER THAN CONVENTIONAL METHODS.

  

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RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY TO MEASURE AMBIENT PRESSURE FLAME.

 

SCIENTISTS USE ADVANCED LASERS AND COMPUTERS AT THE 50,000 SQUARE FOOT, FOUR-BUILDING COMBUSTION RESEARCH FACILITY TO STUDY EXACTLY HOW AND WHY FUELS BURN. IN THE LABORATORY BUILDING, SPECIAL LASER SYSTEMS WITH BEAMS ARE DISTRIBUTED TO 14 INDIVIDUAL LABORATORIES. EACH LABORATORY IS SERVED BY A MINICOMPUTER WHICH IS CONNECTED TO A CENTRAL DATA SYSTEM. IN ADDITION TO BENCH-TOP FLAME STUDIES, THE FACILITY HOUSES SEVERAL MAJOR COMBUSTION EXPERIMENT LABS, INCLUDING FIVE OPTICALLY PORTED RESEARCH ENGINES, A COMPUTER-CONTROL- LED COMBUSTION BOMB, AND LOW-PRESSURE FLAME, COAL FLAME, AND TURBULENT FLAME LABORATORIES. THESE STUDIES COULD LEAD TO THE DESIGN OF HEAT ENGINES AND ENERGY SYSTEMS THAT BURN FUEL MORE EFFICIENTLY WHILE CREATING LESS POLLUTION.

 

For more information or additional images, please contact 202-586-5251.

The Exeter Library Code Club meets fortnightly to learn coding using the Raspberry Pi minicomputer. On Thursday the Code Club went to the Bett Show in London. The Bett Show is the world's leading learning technology event that brings together inspiration and innovation within the education industry

Stealth's Ultra Small Fanless Mini PC model LPC-175F delivers the ultimate in small form factor performance. Designed for wide range temperature operation (-20 to +70 Deg. C) the LPC-175F Fanless Mini PC is an excellent choice for industrial and commercial applications which include, Embedded Control, Digital Signs, Interactive Kiosks, Thin-Clients, and Human/Machine Interface applications.

 

For more information:

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The Raspberry Pi is a low- cost, credit-card sized minicomputer. It is a powerful device that enables people of all ages to explore computing and to learn how to program in languages like Scratch and Python. It’s capable of doing everything you’d expect a regular desktop computer to do, such as searching the internet and watching high-definition video or making spreadsheets, word-processing, and playing games. For more information, please kindly check at this link: www.geeetech.com/raspberry-pi-model-b-p-853.html

PiDP-8 This is a Raspberry Pi-based simulation of a PDP-8 minicomputer from the 1960s. Good, geeky fun!

 

For those old enough to remember 5 1/4" floppy disks. This is the application software for the mini computer running the X-Ray system. The 1980's live on.

ENGINEERS ASSEMBLING VW'S COMBUSTION BOMB (STRATIFIED CHARGE COMBUSTION CHAMBER SIMULATOR).

 

SCIENTISTS USE ADVANCED LASERS AND COMPUTERS AT THE 50,000 SQUARE FOOT, FOUR-BUILDING COMBUSTION RESEARCH FACILITY TO STUDY EXACTLY HOW AND WHY FUELS BURN. IN THE LABORATORY BUILDING, SPECIAL LASER SYSTEMS WITH BEAMS ARE DISTRIBUTED TO 14 INDIVIDUAL LABORATORIES. EACH LABORATORY IS SERVED BY A MINICOMPUTER WHICH IS CONNECTED TO A CENTRAL DATA SYSTEM. IN ADDITION TO BENCH-TOP FLAME STUDIES, THE FACILITY HOUSES SEVERAL MAJOR COMBUSTION EXPERIMENT LABS, INCLUDING FIVE OPTICALLY PORTED RESEARCH ENGINES, A COMPUTER-CONTROLLED COMBUSTION BOMB, AND LOW-PRESSURE FLAME, COAL FLAME, AND TURBULENT FLAME LABORATORIES. THESE STUDIES COULD LEAD TO THE DESIGN OF HEAT ENGINES AND ENERGY SYSTEMS THAT BURN FUEL MORE EFFICIENTLY WHILE CREATING LESS POLLUTION.

 

For more information or additional images, please contact 202-586-5251.

Part of the new LPC-800 Series of Rugged Fanless Mini PCs.

 

For more info please check out the product datasheet here:

store.spartonre.com/littlepcs/rugged-fanless/lpc-810-ultr...

Part of the new LPC-800 Series of Rugged Fanless Mini PCs.

 

For more info please check out the product datasheet here:

store.spartonre.com/littlepcs/rugged-fanless/lpc-860-rugg...

Stealth Computer's new Rugged, Fanless Waterproof PC, Model: WPC-525F. A Robust Mobile PC for Harsh Environment Applications.

 

Sealed to IP67/NEMA 6 specifications. The new Stealth WPC-525F is a rugged PC that is completely water-tight, surviving liquids, chemicals, dust and dirt intrusion and meeting IP67/NEMA 6 environmental specifications.

 

For more information:

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The control panel of a vintage industrial minicomputer, perhaps from the late seventies (1970s). I believe the longest row of switches, numbered from 0 to 15, are for entering data into the computer in binary code. I've actually used a similar minicomputer many years ago and it was a pain entering programs into the computer in binary. We didn't have thumb drives and optical disks back then.

 

© 2010 CP Cheah. All rights reserved.

At Smithsonian Air Museum, Hazy Center. DEC's 16-bit minicomputer.

This is the only "selfie" I've taken with a cell phone front-side camera.

 

The actual subject is the poster on the wall, which I photographed for nostalgia's sake, having recently learned that a member of one of my Yahoo Groups was an architect for the PDP-11 family of computers at Digital Equipment Corporation. He mentioned the ill-fated PRO-350, so this poster immediately came to mind. Sadly, I have the poster but not one of the actual computers - though the LSI-11/73 in another photo is a close cousin.

 

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Detail of 1965 PDP-8 minicomputer, on display at the Science Museum, London.

Stealth's New Powerful Fanless LittlePC with PCI or PCIe Expansion Slot

 

The Stealth Computer model LPC-700F is a high performance, fanless, rugged mini PC with PCI or PCIe expansion slot capability designed for a large variety of demanding applications.

 

For more information please see our datasheet:

www.stealth.com/littlepc_700_fanless_expansion.htm

DEC PDP-8E minicomputer used in Crossbar Tandem offices as 'trap' machine. Top Dual DEC tapes, tape storage, hard drive, control panel, high speed paper tape.

My VAX 11/780, sitting halted because it has bad memory

Stealth Computer's new Rugged, Fanless Waterproof PC, Model: WPC-525F. A Robust Mobile PC for Harsh Environment Applications.

 

Sealed to IP67/NEMA 6 specifications. The new Stealth WPC-525F is a rugged PC that is completely water-tight, surviving liquids, chemicals, dust and dirt intrusion and meeting IP67/NEMA 6 environmental specifications.

 

For more information:

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The Raspberry Pi is moving the small bent wires to play the metal cylinders to make music.

Powerful Mini PC with PCI slot expansion with Four (4) Gigabit LAN Ports. A full featured Mini PC with New Intel® Core™ 3rd Gen i7 mobile processor.

 

For more detailed info:

www.stealth.com/littlepc_480_pcislot_multilan.htm

Stealth Computer's new Rugged, Fanless Waterproof PC, Model: WPC-525F. A Robust Mobile PC for Harsh Environment Applications.

 

Sealed to IP67/NEMA 6 specifications. The new Stealth WPC-525F is a rugged PC that is completely water-tight, surviving liquids, chemicals, dust and dirt intrusion and meeting IP67/NEMA 6 environmental specifications.

 

For more information:

www.stealth.com/Waterproof_Fanless_PC_WPC525F.htm

 

austin, texas

1977

 

motorola semiconductor plant

 

part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

 

© the Nick DeWolf Foundation

Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com

Jay: ¡Estoy rodeado de cosas divertidas! ¡¡Coches, pollos de goma, refrescos y ordenadores!!

Stealth's New Powerful Fanless LittlePC with PCI or PCIe Expansion Slot

 

The Stealth Computer model LPC-700F is a high performance, fanless, rugged mini PC with PCI or PCIe expansion slot capability designed for a large variety of demanding applications.

 

For more information please see our datasheet:

www.stealth.com/littlepc_700_fanless_expansion.htm

Model: LPC-125LPFM - Fanless Mobile Mini PC, features No Noise, Low Power, Wide Temperature Range and DC Power Input 10V-26VDC.

 

Hand size comparison photo

 

For more information see:

www.stealth.com/littlepc_125_lowpower_fanless_mobile.htm

Stealth Computer's new Rugged, Fanless Waterproof PC, Model: WPC-525F. A Robust Mobile PC for Harsh Environment Applications.

 

Sealed to IP67/NEMA 6 specifications. The new Stealth WPC-525F is a rugged PC that is completely water-tight, surviving liquids, chemicals, dust and dirt intrusion and meeting IP67/NEMA 6 environmental specifications.

 

For more information:

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«I've finally bought a new toy, an Acer Aspire One. I'm in love with this cutie since the first time I read about it, around may.

 

I know that it's just a not-so-powerful minicomputer. A toy. But among all the tech-toys I've seen, this one is made for me.

 

Like the Moleskine.»

Raspberry Pi Jam is held at Exeter Library on the first Saturday of the month 10am – 12noon. The Raspberry Pi's can run Scratch, a free programming language where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations. It is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab aimed at young people.

Part of the new LPC-800 Series of Rugged Fanless Mini PCs.

 

For more info please check out the product datasheet here:

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Our Smallest Full Featured Mini PC Ever!

 

Simply amazing! - The most processing power in the smallest package Stealth has ever produced. Utilizing Intel's Mobile Core 2 Duo Processors the LPC-100 delivers the ultimate in small form factor performance. The LPC-100 Mini PC is an excellent choice for industrial and commercial applications which include, Embedded Control, Digital Signs, Interactive Kiosks, Thin-Clients, and Human/Machine Interface applications.

 

Barely larger then a deck of playing cards (4.0" x 6.1" x 1.45") the LPC-100 ultra Mini PC provides CPU performance, I/O connectivity, graphics performance and hard drive space typically found in large PC systems. The LPC-100 operates from an external 12VDC power adapter (included) or can be connected to an external DC source making it ideal for mobile and remote applications.

 

For more info and full datasheet specs:

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We were having a clear out at the office and came across several reels of punched paper tape, used to store some code for use on a DEC-PDP11 minicomputer (1970s vintage)

 

You can read about punched tape here:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_tape

 

Punched tape has actually been around for a long time - since the 1840s when it was connected with telegraph messaging.

 

As a rough estimate if we assume one byte per row of holes then this image (size of 631KB) would require roughly 1200 kilometres of punched tape.

  

Model: LPC-125LPFM - Fanless Mobile Mini PC, features No Noise, Low Power, Wide Temperature Range and DC Power Input 10V-26VDC.

 

Express Card Slot photo

 

For more information see:

www.stealth.com/littlepc_125_lowpower_fanless_mobile.htm

A child learning how to set up and play Minecraft using a Raspberry Pi on National Libraries Day.

other photos:

www.flickr.com/photos/cshym74/3569471210/

www.flickr.com/photos/cshym74/3568661267/

 

Kitchen Computer, Neiman Marcus, 1969.

 

"The Kitchen Computer was featured in the 1969 Neiman Marcus catalog as a $10,600 tool for housewives to store and retrieve recipes. Unfortunately, the user interface was only binary lights and switches. There is no evidence that any Kitchen Computer was ever sold. Inside was a standard Honeywell 316 minicomputer, billed as the first 16-bit machine at that price from a major computer manufacturer."

 

Computer History Museum

Mountain View, CA

www.computerhistory.org/

 

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